[kde-edu]: Errata in kig.po(t)

Aleix Pol aleixpol at kde.org
Mon Dec 21 01:09:55 CET 2009


On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 11:30 PM, Orestes Mas <orestes at tsc.upc.edu> wrote:

> (please, forgive me the cross-posting)
>
> In kig.po there are some recently added terms concerning Bézier curves.
> More
> precisely, "Quadric" and "Cubic" Bézier curves are mentioned. I think the
> word
> "Quadric" is an error and should be "Quadratic" instead, as you can see in
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%A9zier_curve#Examination_of_cases.
>
> A "quadric" is a far more general mathematical object, namely an
> hypersurface
> defined as the loci of zeros of a quadratic polynomial. Nothing closely
> related
> to Bézier curves.
>
> Orestes.
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+1
I would use Quadratic too.
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